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August 2022 (Revised February 2023)
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NewLab: Scaling an Innovation Engine

By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez

Silicon Valley-veteran Shaun Stewart is the CEO of NewLab, a dynamic technology hub headquartered in the storied Brooklyn Navy Yard. Founded in 2016, NewLab fostered a community of entrepreneurs, corporate and government partners, and investors, all seeking to apply... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Brooklyn

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course.... View Details

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

ideas with your classmates, broaden your perspective, and challenge your worldview. Social Join a global community of business professionals. Learn from and network with peers before, during, and after your... View Details

03 Jul 2008
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Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

Summing Up Are leadership and followership joined at the hip? It seems impossible to separate the two. They are reflective of one another. These are two of the predominant opinions expressed in one way or another by respondents to this month's column. Phil Clark... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

other research here . More Info The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Marco Di Maggio , Francesco Franzoni & Amir Kermani NOV 2019 How does the network of... View Details

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

price-based moves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55474 in press Journal of Experimental Social Psychology A Counterfeit Competence: After Threat, Cheating Boosts One's Self-Image By: Wakeman W., C.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld View Details

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

theorized to be 1) normative or value-laden, 2) progressing in bursts of change over time, 3) socially constructed and culturally embedded, and 4) associated with logics that shape practices. We develop a framework, outlining the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

and social return can be aligned to drive positive change. The mentality that Professor Rebecca Henderson shared was something new and fresh and quite exciting for me. After graduation, I chose to join a firm that shares a similar belief.... View Details

27 May 2015
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What is an HBS Section?

HBS is a big place. We think it’s one of the great advantages of our program (lots of students = lots of alums = a big global network for you to access). We receive a lot of questions about our size, like “with a first year class of 930... View Details

June 2008
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Threadless: The Business of Community

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Zahra Kanji

Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs for t-shirts and... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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15 Sep 2022
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6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

Business and Environment Initiative is a hub for environmentally-focused research and teaching With more than 800 MBA students interested in environmental issues, 40+ affiliated faculty, and over 8,000 alumni contacts, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI)... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

start; landing stretch assignments; and building a network of developmental relationships. In framing each of these four challenges from the point of view of the emerging leader, I hope to underscore my belief that management, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2019
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Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

87 percent, during the two months before an election, indicating that the information received in this period matters overall. Voters who switched candidates didn’t change their policy preferences. Voters’ policy views remained consistent, despite the onslaught of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

and the socially clueless. Still, people in an organization can be roughly classified using a simple matrix. Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing Independent Order of St. Luke... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
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VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique

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